Electric-line-tapping connector.



JffF., RICHARDSON. BLBTBIC LINE TAPPING GONNECTOR. APPLIOATION FILED M115, 1909.

1 ,027',2'79. :AIatentnd May 21, 19112.

JOHN. r1aui1mm1a-:ilucmumsort or MONTREAL; onnBEQ'caNnm.

. vSpeell'cati-cn of Letters Patent.y application med ianuaryl 15,1909.. serialize. 472.41m

PatntedMay 21, 1912.

To alllwtom fit my concern.- l

Beit known that- I, JOHN FRANKLIN Britain, and resident of 214-Mance-street,

Province of Quebec, in the, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and uses ful Improvements in Electric-Line-Tapping Connectors; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact (lescription of the same;

.The invention relates toimprovements in electr1c lme tapping connectors, as described in the present specificationy and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention 'consists' essentially' in ar ranging oneor more flexibly connected hooks in combination with a stati or pole.

' aconvenient means of reaching the electric current conducting wires of telephone, telegraph or power services between stations, to dev1se aconnector that ma be attached to the wires no matter in ,what position the said wires are arran ed,` and generally ,-to

y simplify t-he construction of such devices. 7

'.stlck and in sections joined by ferrules 2,

In the drawings, Figure 1 -is a perspective is a perspective detail of the inventionl show-` ing the pole broken away.

Like numerals of reference responding parts in each ligure.'

,Referring to the drawings, 1 is the stall or pole preferably formed of a light lbamboo though itmust be understood that this stall or 'pole may loe-made of anyl suitable Ina'- teria l,` naturally a light and wood material being the most desirable.-

' 3 1s a ferrule encircling the-.top ediof the l f 'st-aff .1 and surroundingthe socket 4.

.lA- kf 7 is a hook here shown as -formed of Hat Wire material and inverted Vfshaped, though` it may lm cf'any suitable contacting` ma- .terial in any desiredshape Saidjho'ok 7 is 'v rigidlysecured -to the 'rerrule 3 and stands :so I' y terminal being formed with the usual con# outf from-the' periphery thereof and extends to andis-connectedwith the termina-l 8, said tact screw 9 and plate 10.

1,2 is a contact plate preferably in vertical alinement with the contact 9 having the con-.

tact screws 13 and 14, the contact screw 13' RICHARDSON, a subject of the Kingof lGreat in the'city and district. of Montreal, in the I 1 4: and therefore-thehook 7 to the portable '"struments by the wire.20`. .A 21"'is` a. contact late/slightly below the' The object of the invention is to provide' View of a telegraph line and of the device' j the socket 4f.

with the contact hooks in position. Fig. 2'

indicate cor- .from the wire.

caught onto one. of .the wires and then the being electricallyiconnected by the wire-115 tothe Contact .9'gthercfore :electrically con- 1 necting the contactfplate 12with' the-hook 7 16 is a wireconnecting the contact"screw` instruments.

'alinement with the Contact plate -12 having`l the double scre'w'-"y contacts 18 and 19; the screw 19.being connected to the'portable in# .ferrule 3' on the sta v1 and having the screw contacts 22 and 23. Securedtherein, the screw contact 23 being connected tothe contact 19 by thewire 24. 25 is a hook similarly formed to the hook 7 having-a contact shank 26 and screw con-` tact. 2T in said'shank,. the screw-contact 2 7 Y y 7.5

being electrically connected 'to the screw contact 22by'thesla wire-28.

29 is a rope off Itable non-conducting material and secured to'the vloose*4 hook 25,r

said rope vextending down-the centerof'thm bamboo statt or pole and further *extending out through a suitable opening SO-in the Walh `of said staflor pole consequently by draw-* the vhook 25 i spulledlinto In the use of this device,iit is prefer-ableSli i ing on said rope,

-for the sake of portability't'o vhave the pole in two or more sections sof-than thesa-id pole can 'be made lon `enough-'to reach the"` telephone or other wires, the hole through' pole is, of course, in the uppermost'section which the rope extends in the wall of the so vthat it may befr'eadily caught in the `hand in order'to'bring the loosejh'ook 25 back in i'ts socketater it has' been removed One of the hooks isfirst other, the loose hook pulling ont with it same plane or in a-'lower cr-'higher plane,

the said loose hook will reach'it, if it is not beyond the length of the slack'wire 28 and of course it may be here noted that the y' said slack wire may made any desired- .105

It must be parting from the spirit of the invention, the

hooks maybe arranged in any suitable man- 'no ner and also the electrical connections, that lunderstood that without deis to say, both hooks may ybe flexihly` air-44.5'

rangedand wiring may be direct from the hooks to single contact-s or in fact several incidental changes'may be made as long as the salient features of the inventionl are ad A hered to.

What I claim as my invent-ion is:

In an velect-ric line tapping connector of the kind having a loosehook and a fixed 10 hook, a hollow non-conducting multi lesec-tion pole having the fixed hook rigldly secured to the tip of the top section of said pole, a non-conducting rope having the loose hook at the outer end thereof and extending through said top section and out through a hole near the bottoml of said top section, a pair of terminal plates secured to the exterior-of said top section near the bottom thereof, a terminal` plate securedto the exterior of said top section nearthe top there-` of, a slack wire electrically connecting said loose hook and -said top terminal plate, a wire electricall connecting said top terminal plate an one of said lower terminal plates, a wire electrically connecting said xed lhook and the otherof said lower terminal plates, anda wire leading from each of said lower terminal plates to an electrical y instrument.

Signed at lthe city and district of Montreal, inthe Province 0f Quebec, in the' Witnesses:

G. H. TRESIDDER, P. SEEE. 

